Hamid Rahmanian is a filmmaker and graphic artist. He was educated in Tehran, Iran, where he gained his B.F.A. in graphic design from Tehran University. His work as a graphic designer spans more than two decades. He owned and managed a top firm in Tehran for five years. In 1992, he received the highest honor
Matthew Pillsbury was born and raised in France but now lives in New York City. He received his B.A. in fine art from Yale University in 1995 and an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2004. Pillsbury has focused on creating long-exposure black-and-white photographs using only the available light at the
Joshua Weiner is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish, published by University of Chicago Press in spring 2013. He is also the editor of At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn (also from Chicago), and the poetry editor of Tikkun
Susan Wanklyn was born and grew up in Montreal. Her paintings have been exhibited in France and the United States, predominantly in New York. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Please refer to her website for images and more information.
Anne Waldman grew up on Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village, New York City, and began writing at an early age. Poetry collections over the years have included the long chant poem Fast Speaking Woman (City Lights), the selected volumes Helping the Dreamer and In the Room of Never Grieve (both from Coffee House Press), and
Susan Orlean has examined subcultures, passions, and the textures of ordinary life through narrative stories so engaging that the Washington Post has described it as “a national treasure.” Her essays have appeared in the New Yorker, where she has been a staff writer since 1992, as well as in Esquire, Smithsonian, New York Times Magazine,
Meghan O’Rourke is the author of the memoir The Long Goodbye (2011), a study of grief in America, and the poetry collections Once (2011) and Halflife (2007), which was a finalist for both the Forward First Book Prize and the Patterson Poetry Prize. She has been an editor at the New Yorker, culture editor and
I was born in Chicago, and after a childhood spent moving around the United States, I returned there and received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I now live and work in New York City, and teach painting at the School of Visual Arts. In addition, I also spend a
Thomas Travisano’s current project, a new critical and cultural biography of Elizabeth Bishop, is a natural outgrowth of his ongoing curiosity about, and critical and scholarly engagement with, the writing, life, and worlds of the mid-twentieth-century American poet Elizabeth Bishop. His scholarly career has featured the publication of eight books and more than twenty-five articles,
Lori Nix was born in the late 1960’s and raised in the American Midwest. Her early exposure to the destructive powers of Mother Nature and Hollywood dystopian stories fueled her young imagination and has led her to where she is today. For the last 20+ years she has constructed small-scale dioramas and photographed them. Beginning
Born in 1960 in Van Nuys, California, Patrick Nickell received a B.A. in Art from Linfield College in 1983 and his M.F.A. in sculpture from Claremont Graduate University in 1985. In 2003 a traveling mid-career survey of his work curated by Julie Joyce, titled Patrick Nickell, Built for Speed, A Sculpture Survey, chronicled his
Eric Nathan’s (b. 1983) music has been performed in the United States and abroad at music festivals including Tanglewood, Aspen Music Festival, Ravinia Festival Steans Institute, Aldeburgh Music Festival (UK), World Music Days, Yellow Barn as well as at the Louvre Museum and Carnegie Hall, and featured on NPR’s radio show “From the Top,” WQXR’s
It has been twenty years since I first traveled to Vietnam for my doctoral dissertation research on the history of Vietnamese painting from 1925 to 1995. Since then, the country has undergone tremendous economic and social changes. Artists have also been affected by these transformations and I have spent the better part of these twenty
Terence Nance is an artist whose practice includes installation, performance, music, and moving images. Terence makes music under the name Terence Etc. His first feature film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, is an IFP Narrative lab alumnus and premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and went on to play over 50 film festivals worldwide.
Dean Moss is a dance-based multidisciplinary theater and media artist, curator, and lecturer. His current research investigates perceptions of self and other, often incorporating transcultural performance collaborations and audience participation. He is the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Artists Grant Award; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships; Asian Cultural Council Fellowships; a
Terese Svoboda is the author of five novels, most recently Bohemian Girl, named one of the ten best 2012 Westerns by Booklist and an Historical Book of the Year Finalist in Foreword. "Astounding!" proclaimed The New York Post in a review of her memoir Black Glasses Like Clark Kent that won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize
Andrew Moore, a large-format photographer for more than thirty-five years, is best known for his portfolios on Cuba, Russia, Times Square, and Detroit. His latest project, Dirt Meridian, began in 2005 with a visit to a cattle branding at a friend’s family ranch in Keene, North Dakota. While not flopping calves that May afternoon, Moore
Young Min Moon immigrated to Canada as a teen in the 1980s, and divides his time between Massachusetts and Seoul, Korea. Moon’s practice of art and writing is informed by his experience of migration across cultures and the hybridized nature of identities in the context of the historical and political relationship between modern Asia and
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